FMA Anime - Weekly Online Sources

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Since I repeat myself in the episode threads every week, we'll just use this thread for the download sources.

I'm not linking the torrents directly anymore because of the C&D action taken by Funimation. Most groups have dropped FMA due to this but two reliable ones still continue, please keep your eyes open

Live Streaming
If you're able to understand Japanese or if you're just curious, you can watch FMA 'live' at Japanese TV when it airs. It's actually very easy to do but you have to check the correct airing time for your timezone. FMA airs every Sunday at 5pm JST (Japanese Standard Time).

• KeyHoleTV
  'KeyHoleTV is part of a project by Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs testing out P2P (peer to peer) technology.' The software is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Sadly, the quality is partly very bad and doesn't work well with an slow internet connection. But it's free for use and legal. KeyHole TV can be downloaded here.
  
• Alternative Streams
  The following streams for the TBS/MBS network (the channel on which FMA airs) are alternatives to KeyHoleTV. They're not official and therefor not-so-legal but the quality is a lot better and you don't need to install additional software. All you need is a video player that can play from external sources (most modern players can do that). Just copy one of the following links and 'open it as url' in your favorite player:
  mms://stream.gundam.eu/tbs
  mms://streaming.animu.eu/tbs
  
  There are more streams but the owners don't wish for public listing since it causes the servers to overload. But if needed, googling for 'mms stream japan' or similar should give you some more.

Official Online Broadcast
If you're in the US, you have the luck to have an official online broadcaster. Please make use of it. If there are legal ways, you should support them:

• Funimation
  The online broadcaster for North America streams the subbed episodes just four days after they've aired in Japan. That's as fast as you can get something 'official'. Check out Funimation's website for the specific time in your area.
• HULU
  This one has a better streaming quality than Funimation but a two weeks delay in airing the episodes. Yet two weeks are still acceptable, don't you think? Get more info here.
• Other Countries
  Please have a look at the list posted over at the FMA Forums. It is more detailed and contains a lot more sources to legally watch FMA online.

Most official online broadcasters are geoblocked due to license issues. You can only access the streams if you're within the licensed region. However, you can use a proxy to get around the block but how to do it is not an information we can provide here at MH. Aside from that, it's just as illegal as watching fansubs, so...

Fansubs
We won't link directly to the groups, so you have to look for yourself a little.

• Torrent
  Tokyotosho will always point to the fresh torrents for FMA raws (not subbed) and for the fansubbed episodes. You can also filter for non-english subbed episodes.
• Direct Download
  That's a little tricky since I don't want to point to a specific site. But google for 'rapidshare' and 'megaupload' in combination with group name, series title and episode number will always get you a bunch of results shortly after the torrents are up. Most are regularly blogged and only available for a few days. Please make sure to not download from suspicious websites to avoid malware.